2nd Asia-Pacific Regional Education Minister’s Conference (APREMC-II) to urgently address learning recovery for 760 million children and ‘education transformation’ in the region
BANGKOK/KATHMANDU, 30 May 2022: The COVID-19 pandemic, now well into its third year, has resulted in the biggest disruption of education in history, adversely affecting over 800 million children across the Asia-Pacific region since early 2020. Schools in East Asia and the Pacific, for example, have been fully closed for 18 weeks on average.…